Matthew 15:3-19:2 And He, answering, said to them, "Why do ye also transgress the commandment of God because of your tradition?

Worrell⁽ⁱ⁾ ³ And He, answering, said to them, "Why do ye also transgress the commandment of God because of your tradition? ⁴ For God said, 'Honor your father and your mother,' and 'He that speaks evil of father or mother, let him surely die,' ⁵ But ye say, 'Whosoever shall say to his father or his mother, That by which you might be profited by me is an offering,' ⁶ shall in no wise honor his father; and ye made void the word of God because of your tradition. ⁷ Hypocrites! Well did Isaiah prophesy of you, saying, ⁸ 'This people honor Me with their lips, but their heart is far from Me. ⁹ But in vain do they worship Me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.'" ¹⁰ And, having called the multitude near, He said to them, "Hear, and understand: ¹¹ Not that which enters into the mouth defiles the man; but that which proceeds out of the mouth—this defiles the man." ¹² Then, His disciples, coming near, say to Him, "Knowest Thou that the Pharisees, having heard the saying, were made to stumble?" ¹³ But He, answering, said, "Every plant which My Heavenly Father did not plant shall be rooted up. ¹⁴ Let them alone; they are blind guides; and if a blind man be guiding a blind man, both will fall into a pit." ¹⁵ And Peter, answering, said to Him, "Explain to us the parable." ¹⁶ And He said, "Are ye also even yet without understanding? ¹⁷ Do ye not perceive that whatever goes into the mouth passes into the belly, and is cast forth into the drain? ¹⁸ But the things that proceed out of the mouth come forth out of the heart; and these defile the man. ¹⁹ For out of the heart come forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false-witnessings, blasphemies: ²⁰ these are the things which defile the man, but to eat with unwashed hands does not defile the man." ²¹ And, going forth thence, Jesus withdrew into the parts of Tyre and Sidon. ²² And, behold, a Canaanitish woman, having come forth out of those borders, cried out, saying, "Have mercy on me, O Lord, Son of David; my daughter is grievously vexed with a demon!" ²³ But He answered her not a word. And His disciples, coming near, were beseeching Him, saying, "Send her away; for she is crying after us!" ²⁴ But He, answering, said, "I was not sent, except to the lost sheep of the house of Israel." ²⁵ But she, coming, was worshiping Him, saying, "Lord, help me!" ²⁶ And He, answering, said, "It is not good to take the children's bread and cast it to the little dogs." ²⁷ But she said, "Yes, Lord; for even the little dogs eat of the crumbs falling from the master's table." ²⁸ Then Jesus, answering, said to her, "O woman, great is your faith! be it done to you as you wish." And her daughter was healed from that hour. ²⁹ And, departing thence, Jesus came near to the sea of Galilee; and, going up into the mountain, He was sitting there. ³⁰ And there came to Him great multitudes, having with them the lame, blind, dumb, maimed, and many others; and they cast them at His feet, and He healed them; ³¹ so that the multitudes wondered, seeing the dumb speaking, maimed whole, and lame walking, and blind seeing; and they glorified the God of Israel. ³² And Jesus, having called His disciples near, said, "I have compassion on the multitude, because they continue with Me now three days, and have nothing to eat; and I am not willing to send them away fasting, lest haply they faint in the way." ³³ And His disciples say to Him, "Whence should we, in a wilderness, have so many loaves as to satisfy so great a multitude?" ³⁴ And Jesus saith to them, "How many loaves have ye?" And they said, "Seven, and a few little fishes." ³⁵ And, having commanded the multitude to recline on the ground, ³⁶ He took the seven loaves and the fishes; giving thanks, He broke, and was giving to the disciples; and the disciples to the multitudes. ³⁷ And they all ate, and were satisfied; and they took up what was over of the pieces seven baskets full; ³⁸ and those eating were four thousand men, besides women and children. ³⁹ And, dismissing the multitudes, He went up into the boat, and came into the borders of Magadan. ¹⁶ ¹ And the Pharisees and Sadducees, coming near, tempting Him, asked Him to show them a sign from the heaven; ² and He, answering, said to them, "When it is evening, ye say, 'It will be fair, for the heaven is red;' ³ and in the morning, 'Today, a tempest; for red is the overcast heaven.' The face of the heaven, indeed, ye know how to discern, but the signs of the times ye can not discern. ⁴ An evil and adulterous generation is seeking after a sign; and no sign will be given to it, except the sign of Jonah the prophet." And, leaving them, He departed. ⁵ And the disciples, coming to the other aide, forgot to take bread. ⁶ And Jesus said to them, "Take heed, and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees." ⁷ And they were deliberating among themselves, saying, "We took no bread." ⁸ And Jesus, knowing it, said, "Why are ye deliberating among yourselves, O ye of little faith, because ye have no bread? ⁹ Do ye not yet perceive, nor remember the five loaves of the five thousand, and how many baskets ye took up? ¹⁰ Nor the seven loaves of the four thousand, and how many baskets ye took up? ¹¹ How is it that ye do not perceive that I spake not to you concerning bread? but beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees? ¹² Then they understood that He did not bid them beware of the leaven of the bread, but of the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees. ¹³ And Jesus, having come into the parts of Caesarea Philippi, was asking His disciples, saying, "Who do men say that the Son of Man is?" ¹⁴ And they said, "Some say John the Immerser; and others, Elijah; and others Jeremiah, or one of the prophets." ¹⁵ And He saith to them, "But who do ye say that I am?" ¹⁶ And Simon Peter, answering, said, "Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God." ¹⁷ And Jesus, answering, said to him, "Happy are you, Simon Bar-Jonah; because flesh and blood did not reveal it to you, but My Father Who is in Heaven. ¹⁸ And I also say to you, that you are Peter, and upon this rock I will build My assembly, and the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it. ¹⁹ I will give you the keys of the Kingdom of Heaven; and whatsoever you shall bind on the earth shall have been bound in Heaven, and whatsoever you shall loose on the earth shall have been loosed in Heaven." ²⁰ Then He charged the disciples that they should tell no one that He was the Christ. ²¹ From that time began Jesus to show to His disciples, that He must go to Jerusalem, and suffer many things from the elders and high-priests and scribes, and be killed, and on the third day be raised up. ²² And Peter, taking Him aside, began to rebuke Him, saying, "God be merciful to Thee! this shall not be to Thee." ²³ But, turning, He said to Peter, "Get behind Me, Satan! you are a stumbling-block to Me; because you are not thinking of the things of God, but the things of men." ²⁴ Then said Jesus to His disciples, "If any one wishes to come after Me, let him disown himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me; ²⁵ for whosoever wishes to save his soul shall lose it, and whosoever shall lose his soul for My sake shall find it; ²⁶ for what will a man be profited, if he gain the whole world, and suffer damage as to his soul? or what will a man give as an exchange for his soul? ²⁷ For the Son of Man is about to come in the glory of His Father with His angels, and then will He render to each one according to his work. ²⁸ Verily I say to you, there are some of those standing here, who will not taste of death, till they see the Son of Man coming in His Kingdom." ¹⁷ ¹ And, after six days, Jesus taketh with Him Peter, and James, and John his brother, and bringeth them up into a high mountain apart; ² and He was transfigured before them; and His face shone as the sun, and His garments became white as the light. ³ And, behold, there appeared to them Moses and Elijah talking with Him. ⁴ And Peter, answering, said to Jesus," Lord, it is good that we are here. If Thou wilt, I will make here three tents—one for Thee, and one for Moses, and one for Elijah." ⁵ While he was yet speaking, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them. And, behold, a voice out of the cloud, saying, "This is My beloved Son, in Whom I delighted; hear Him." ⁶ And the disciples, hearing it, fell on their face, and were exceedingly afraid. ⁷ And Jesus came near, and, touching them, said, "Arise, and be not afraid." ⁸ And lifting up their eyes, they saw no one, except Jesus only. ⁹ And, as they were coming down out of the mountain, Jesus commanded them, saying, "Tell the vision to no one, until the Son of Man be raised from among the dead." ¹⁰ And His disciples asked Him, saying, "Why, then, do the scribes say that Elijah must come first?" ¹¹ And He, answering, said, "Elijah, indeed, comes, and will restore all things; ¹² but I say to you that Elijah already came, and they recognized him not, but did with him whatsoever they wished: so also the Son of Man is about to suffer by them." ¹³ Then the disciples understood that He spake to them concerning John the Immerser. ¹⁴ And, when they came to the multitude, there approached Him a man, kneeling to Him, and saying, ¹⁵ "Lord, have mercy on my son, because he is lunatic, and suffers grievously; for often he falls into the fire, and often into the water. ¹⁶ And I brought him to Thy disciples, and they could not heal him." ¹⁷ And Jesus, answering, said, "O faithless and perverted generation! How long shall I be with you? Bring him here to Me." ¹⁸ And Jesus rebuked it, and the demon went out of him, and the boy was healed from that hour. ¹⁹ Then the disciples, coming near, said to Jesus privately, "Why could not we cast it out?" ²⁰ And He saith to them, "Because of your little faith. For verily I say to you, if ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say to this mountain, 'Remove hence yonder,' and it will be removed, and nothing shall be impossible to you." ²¹ ["But this kind goes not out, except by prayer and fasting.] ²² And, while they were assembled together in Galilee, Jesus said to them, "The Son of Man is about to be delivered into the hands of men; ²³ and they will kill Him, and on the third day He will be raised up." And they were grieved exceedingly. ²⁴ And, when they came into Capernaum, those receiving the half-shekel came to Peter, and said, "Doth not your Teacher pay the half-shekel?" ²⁵ He says, "Yes." And Jesus anticipated him as he came into the house, saying, "What do you think, Simon? the kings of the earth, from whom do they receive tax or tribute? from their sons, or from the aliens?" ²⁶ And, when he said, "From the aliens," Jesus said to him, "Consequently the sons are free; ²⁷ but, that we may not cause them to stumble; having gone to the sea, cast a hook, and take up the fish first coming up; and, opening its mouth, you will find a shekel; taking that, give it to them for Me and you." ¹⁸ ¹ At that time the disciples came near to Jesus, saying, "Who then is greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven?" ² And, having called a little child to Him, He placed it in the midst of them, ³ and said, "Verily I say to you, except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall in no wise enter into the Kingdom of Heaven. ⁴ Whosoever, therefore, shall humble himself as this little child, he is greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven. ⁵ And whosoever receives one such little child in My name, receives Me. ⁶ But whosoever causes one of these little ones who believe in Me to stumble, it is profitable for him that a large millstone be hanged about his neck, and he be sunk in the depth of the sea. ⁷ "Woe to the world because of stumbling-blocks! for there is a necessity that the stumbling-blocks come; but woe to the man through whom the stumbling-block comes! ⁸ "And, if your hand or your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off, and cast it from you; it is good for you to enter into life maimed or lame, rather than having two hands or two feet to be cast into the eternal fire. ⁹ "And, if your eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out, and cast it from you; it is good for you to enter into life with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into the Hell of fire. ¹⁰ "See that ye despise not one of these little ones; for I say to you, that their angels in Heaven do always behold the face of My Father Who is in Heaven. ¹¹ ["For the Son of Man came to save that which was lost."] ¹² "What think ye? If a hundred sheep belong to a certain man, and one of them goes astray, will he not leave the ninety and nine on the mountains, and, going, seek the straying one? ¹³ And, if it happen that he find it, verily I say to you, he rejoices over it more than over the ninety and nine that have not gone astray. ¹⁴ In like manner it is not the will of your Father Who is in Heaven, that one of these little ones should perish. ¹⁵ "And, if your brother sin against you, go show him his fault between you and him alone. If he hear you, you gained your brother; ¹⁶ but, if he hear you not, take with you yet one or two, that at the mouth of two witnesses or three, every word may be established. ¹⁷ And, if he disregard them, tell it to the assembly; and, if he disregard the assembly also, let him be to you as the gentile and the tax-collector. ¹⁸ Verily, I say to you, whatsoever ye bind upon the earth shall have been bound in Heaven, and whatsoever ye loose on the earth shall have been loosed in Heaven. ¹⁹ "Again, I say to you, that, if two of you shall agree on the earth concerning any matter which ye ask, it shall be done for them by My Father Who is in Heaven; ²⁰ for where two or three are gathered together in My name, there am I in the midst of them." ²¹ Then Peter, coming near, said to Him, "Lord, how often shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? till seven times?" ²² Jesus saith to him, "I say not to you, 'till seven times,' but till seventy times seven. ²³ Therefore, the Kingdom of Heaven was likened to a king who wished to make a reckoning with his servants. ²⁴ And, when he began to reckon, there was brought to him one debtor of ten thousand talents; ²⁵ but, as he had nothing to pay, his lord commanded that he be sold, and his wife, and his children, and all that he had, and payment to be made. ²⁶ The servant, falling down, therefore, was bowing to him, saying, 'Lord, have patience with me, and I will pay you all.' ²⁷ And, moved with compassion, the lord of that servant released him, and forgave him the debt. ²⁸ But, going forth, that servant found one of his fellow-servants, who was owing him a hundred denaries; and, having laid hold of him, he was choking him, saying, 'Pay, if you are owing anything!' ²⁹ His fellow-servant, falling down, therefore, was entreating him, saying, Have patience with me, and I will pay you! ³⁰ And he would not; but, going away, he cast him into prison, till he should pay what was due. ³¹ Therefore, his fellow-servants, seeing what was done, were exceedingly grieved; and, going, they made known to their lord all that was done. ³² "Then, calling him to him, his lord says to him, 'Evil servant! I forgave you all that debt, because you besought me. ³³ Should you not also have had mercy on your fellow-servant, as I had mercy on you?' ³⁴ And, being angry, his lord delivered him to the tormentors, until he should pay all the debt. ³⁵ So also will My Heavenly Father do to you, if ye forgive not, each one his brother, from your hearts." ¹⁹ ¹ And it came to pass that, when Jesus finished these words, He departed from Galilee, and came into the borders of Judaea, beyond the Jordan. ² And large multitudes followed Him; and He healed them there.